Explore Abruzzo and Molise
Abruzzo’s coastline stretches for 125km from the border with the Marche region down to the seaside resort of Vasto. The main town and resort of the Abruzzo coast is PESCARA, a bustling, modern place that’s the region’s most commercial city, with a 16km stretch of beach. It’s also the nearest town to Abruzzo’s airport, where low-cost flights from the UK touch down.
Pescara was heavily bombed in World War II and architecturally there’s little of distinction here, but the town makes a good base for excursions to the atmospheric medieval villages of Loreto Aprutino and Atri. Next stop along the coast is Chieti, home to a superb archeological museum.
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Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Abruzzo
Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Abruzzo
Half an hour by train or bus southwest of Pescara is the appealing town of CHIETI. Spread over a curving ridge, it offers great views of the Majella and Gran Sasso mountains and – on a clear day – out to sea. It also holds Abruzzo’s best archeological museum.
The Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Abruzzo, laid out in the dignified Villa Comunale, holds finds from Abruzzo’s major sites: a massive and muscular white-marble Hercules from his temple at Alba Fucens as well as a miniature bronze statue of him, one of several Roman copies of the Greek original by Lysippus. Most interesting is the Capestrano Warrior, a statue of a Bronze Age warrior-prince with strangely feminine hips and thighs.
